"You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast."

“More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.”

“What makes everything one is the style.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

“I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.”

“I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

“The race for excellence has no finish line.”

“I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.”

“I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling is like. Maybe if I had shone at anything at school they would have encouraged me to try that, but it has been the only thing I have ever wanted to do.”